mbegwe
Kaiwá
editEtymology
editCognate with Guaraní mbegue and Old Tupi mbegûé.
Noun
editmbegwe
- slowly
- Eregwata mbegwe eterei gwi ndahamo'ãi ne ndive. ― Because you walk too slowly, I won't go with you.
- low (low volume of sound)
- Embopu mbegweve ne mbaraka. ― Play your guitar lower.
Further reading
edit- Graciela Chamorro (2022) “mbegwe”, in Dicionário kaiowá-português [Kaiwá–Portuguese Dictionary] (overall work in Portuguese), Belo Horizonte: Javali, →ISBN, page 361, column 1